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Basic Meaning: eight flavors

Senses:

  • The eight savors (or pleasures) of the Buddhaʼs nirvana: 常住 perpetual abiding, 寂滅 extinction (of distress, etc.), 不老 eternal youth, 不死 immortality, 淸淨 purity, 虛通 absolute freedom (as space), 不動 imperturbability, and 快樂 joy. 〔長阿含經 T 1.1.119a4〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 866

    Bulgyo sajeon 897a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1106d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 285

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1968c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1419-1

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2007-09-15